Hook and eye.



jaws.

No. reacts.

iatented September 8, 1903;

PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL A. BROMBERG, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.-

HOOK AND EYE;

:SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 738,655, dated September 8 1963;. Application filed January 13, 1903. Serial No. 138,845. (No model!) improvements in hook-and-eye fasteners for garments; and its object is to provide a fastener of this character which is of novel construction and is provided with retaining means'within the eyewhereby the book may be securely held in position therein unless more than ordinary backward and downward pressure is exerted thereupon.

The invention consists in providing an eye formed'of a single piece of wire and having an intermediate or engaging portion, from the ends of which project rearwardly-extending arms, which are so shaped as to form eyes and are then bent inward between the arms and laterally to form Y -shaped retaining- The hook is also formed of a single piece of wire, so shaped as-to comprise a shank, having eyes at one end and a rearwardly-extending diamond-shaped head at the opposite end, said head being substantially equal in width to the distance between the arms of the eye at the forward ends thereof.

The invention also consists in the further novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, showing the preferred form of my invention, and in which- Figure 1 is-a plan view showing my improved hook and eye in engagement with each other. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, and Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the hook.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is a preferably curved intermediate or engaging portion of the eye, the same being provided at each end with a" rearward continuation or arm 2, said arms being preferably tapered toward each other. An eye 3 is formed at the rear end of each arm and a forwardly-extending retaining spring-strip 4 projects from each eye and between the arms 2, said strips being preferably tapered toward each other and provided at their free ends with extensions 5, which project laterally therefrom and form substantially Y-shaped jaws, which are located at the rear of the center of the engaging portion 1 of the eye. The hook employed in connection with the eye above described is also preferably formed of and having eyes 8, formed at the opposite end thereof by bending the ends of the wire constituting said hook against the sides of the shank.

To use the fastener herein described, the hook and eye are secured to a garment in the ordinary manner and the diamond-shaped head 6 is then inserted under the eye and brought into contact with the inner surfaces of the Y-shaped jaws 5. The head 6 is preferably very short and merely of sufficient length to permit the same to extend over the engaging portion 1 of the eye, and it is obvious, therefore, that when the two parts are placed in engagement with each other it is necessary to overlap the same but slightly. After the hook has been brought into contact with the jaws it is pressed thereagainst until brought past the plane of the engaging sec* tion 1. The two heads of the fastener are then drawn in opposite directions and the hook will, as is obvious, engage the portion 1 of the eye. As soon as this engagement takes place the jaws 5 spring back into normal positions in rear of the engaging portion 1, and it is therefore impossible to disengage the hook from the eye unless the same is moved backward with sufficient. pressure to force the jaws 5 apart to enable the diamond shaped head 6 to pass therebetween. ,Each jaw 5 will, as is obvious, bear upon one side of the head 6, and the two thereforeserve as retainers of the head, no matter in what position the same maybe moved in relation to the engaging portion 1.

In the foregoing description I have shown the preferred form of my invention; butI do not limit myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without IOO departing from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages thereof, and I therefore reserve the right to make such changes and alterations as may fall within the scope ofmy invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a garment-fastener of the character described, the combination with a shank having eyes at one end, a hook at the other end and a diamond-shaped head upon the hook; of an eye formed in a single strip and adapt-. ed to be engaged by the hook, said eye comprising an intermediate or engaging portion, arms extending from the ends thereof and inclined toward each other, eyes at the free in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL A. BROMBERG.

Witnesses:

L.- L. LEWIs, H. G. BUCHANAN. 

